Project Unify/CSU

About Ontology

Core Team

Scope

The ontology team will focus on the following:

Catalog worldwide human services ontologies/vocabularies, coordinate with other SDOs (all in RDF/OWL).
Propose new APIs and workflows based on collected and gap vocabularies.
Beginnings of a Human Services functional equivalent to FHIR/RIM models

Monthly Reports

December 2021

Latest Resources

The Common Impact Data Standard: An Ontology for Representing Impact

CIDS is a standardized way to represent a SPO’s impact model (i.e., definition) and the impact (i.e., effect) their implementation has on its stakeholders. This creates a uniform representation while allowing each SPO flexibility to design an impact…

Layered Schemas

Layered Schemas (Project Unify 10152021).pdf

Latest Discussion

Population and Community Ontology

I ran across an ontology of great usefulness to human services:one for population and community https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/PCO/?p=summary . As stated "Practical applications of the PCO include community health care, plant pathology, behavioral studies, sociology, and ecology. The PCO is complient with the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and is designed to be compatible with other OBO Foundry ontologies.". The UN Sustainable Development Goals ontologies are aligning with it. Oh,…

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